This is the story of two women, one town and family secrets.
Isobel Ashworth comes from a wealthy family. Her father has sent her to Hartwell to oversee a property development project that is full of uncertainty and drama. She’s out to impress her father.
When DNA tests are handed out anonymously to the Ashworth family as a Christmas gift, Isobel starts to question her identity, her life and her family history.
Meg Hunter is a journalist who arrives in Hartwell to track down and uncover the secrets of the Ashworth family and their business dealings, but in the process, she begins to discover secrets about her mother’s life that she had never known.
This is a fast-paced novel that had me hooked at the start and propelled me to finish it in a couple of days.
The Inheritance is Kate Horan’s debut novel and would be great for readers of Sally Hepworth, Ali Lowe or Jo Dixon.
Reviewed by Bianca Malyan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Horan has spent the last 17 years working in corporate communications, helping executives to pitch and present. Before that, she taught English and Drama at high schools in western Sydney where she relished inspiring teenagers with a love of reading and writing. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 2001 with an Honours degree in English Literature.
She traces her love of storytelling back to her childhood when she would listen to her father and grandfather telling stories around the dinner table. Always a voracious reader, as a child she was often in trouble for reading under the quilt with a torch after lights out, and she firmly believes bookshops are the most magical places on earth. After many years of feeling the niggle to write her own stories, she attended Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel program in 2020.
When she’s not dreaming up stories about complicated families with dark secrets, she’s kid-wrangling her two young, high-spirited boys, listening to podcasts and walking her golden lab on Sydney’s beautiful Northern Beaches.
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